Today's Date: March 24
1858 |
The printing press of the St. Cloud Visiter is destroyed by a mob. The paper's editor, Jane Grey Swisshelm, a feminist and abolitionist, had angered local businessman and slave owner Sylvanus B. Lowry. Swisshelm obtained a new press and printed the story of her press's destruction and the names of the culprits, which resulted in a libel case and the termination of the paper. A week later she began publishing the St. Cloud Democrat, which she ran for eight years. |
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1999 |
The US Supreme Court upholds the rights of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to fish and hunt in ceded lands without state regulation, as dictated by an 1837 treaty. |
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2002 |
The UMD Bulldogs Women's Ice Hockey team win their second consecutive national championship. |